Name: Shirley Temple
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 10 ml Lemon juice; 165 ml Ginger ale

Shirley Temple
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Glass:

Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
¹⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
5 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ginger ale

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered lemon slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).

How to make:

POUR ingredients into chilled glass.
FILL glass with ice.

Garnish:

Garnish with skewered lemon wheel and maraschino cherry sail.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

I've added a splash of lemon juice to the usual recipe. It's still not that exciting.

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History:

Named after the 1930s child film star, Shirley Temple who retired from acting in 1950 at the tender age of 22 having already starred in an incredible 42 films. She appeared in her first film when just three-years-old in 1931 and two years later she achieved international fame after appearing in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically to capitalise on her obvious talents.

Cocktail legend has it that Shirley complained of being overlooked at Hollywood parties where the adults surrounding her sipped on sophisticated cocktails leading to a bartender at Chasen's Restaurant in Beverly Hills (the venue for many Academy Awards parties) to create the eponymous non-alcoholic cocktail in her honour.

After her second marriage, Shirley Temple Black, became best-known as a diplomat and the US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.

Nutrition:

One serving of Shirley Temple contains 93 calories

*Alcohol-free: This recipe contains a maximum of 0.5% alc/vol.

Alcohol content:

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0% alc./vol. (0° proof)
0 grams of pure alcohol

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Michael Click

12th January at 19:13

I rate this as a 3.5 when made with ginger ale and just a 3 when made with lemon-lime soda. It's just my personal preference. I like the optional squeeze of lemon to cut down the sweetness. It's really good with pomegranate syrup instead of the candy sweet supermarket grenadine because the pomegranate adds some much needed tartness.

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Chris Dimal

6th March 2023 at 14:02

This is a drink which can be nice with all fresh and natural ingredients. Make your own grenadine (using freshly processed pomegranate juice which is magenta in colour, please don't get the bottled ones which are dark red in colour), fresh lemon juice and a cheat's homemade ginger ale (which is fresh ginger juice syrup and soda). The fruitiness of pomegranate plays wonderfully with spicy ginger.

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G. M. Genovese

26th March 2024 at 17:53

Chris, I used an honest-to-goodness homemade grenadine - a recipe I love and have made for years - and the taste of it in the ginger ale (Fever Tree Refreshingly Light) threw me off. But I agree that it might be best to go all homemade with this. I'll try your ginger ale suggestion.

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